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Boston TFL Meet Up Report - Link to Lexington Minuteman Article

Boston TFL Meet Up Report - Link to Lexington Minuteman Article

Update: A photographer and reporter from the local paper stopped by our meet-up. Here is the link to the article. In the print version we were the top front page story.

On Saturday, we had our Boston Area TFL meet up. Ten intrepid bakers plus family members broke bread together. Lots of bread. Lots of really amazing, delicious, and varied bread. We all had a great time chatting, and each had a chance to describe their bread, show and tell, and so on. Ian and I took a lot of pictures, so I'll let the pictures do the talking. (Ian's are the wider ones. I shrunk mine down.)

OMG it is absolute torture looking at all that delicious food I missed out on! Congratulations on such a successful meet-up. P.S. Jong Yang, are you willing to divulge any of your egg custard tart secrets to TFL? ;-)

Thank you Varda for organizing this great event. My wife and I had a fantastic time. It was so nice to meet so many fellow bread heads and spouses who but up with us :). Between Kirsten's amazing lemon curd and Mike's ridiculously tasty pastrami and all of the wonderful breads what was there not to like! Jong Yangs inventive steaming apparatus and homemade lames and bannetons were fantastic. He kept pulling out more and more inventions to go along with his tasty bread I thought he was going to pull out a new steam injected oven on top of it!

I loved the town of Lexington which is such a nice quaint American treasure of a village.

transformed by a few hundred years into a community of scientists and engineers. It was great to meet you and your wife, and I'm glad she survived a meeting of bread fanatics and was still happy at the end. -Varda

Janet, I think I'll let participants decide if they want the links to their screen names. I walked around sticking my camera in people's faces. Intrusion enough. (I'll never make a photographer - I apologized to everyone after photographing them.) This was a lot of fun. A Denver meetup next? -Varda

Since I have been a member here there have been 3 of these get togethers that come to mind. One in the UK; one in Kansas and now your Boston success has been added to the list. One never knows where the next one will surface. I guess we simply have to stay tuned. :-)

The Perth chapter of TFL met up for a wood-fired oven pizza and bread bake in May 2012 (follow-up report here). Admittedly, at that time there were only two of us, heh heh - Derek (Yozzause) and me. But it was a good evening! And now our numbers have built to three! From little things, big things grow...

Great report, Varda. Looks like everyone had a terrif time...and fabbo array of breads and other goodies! I'd also like to put nicknames to faces if attendees feel like providing that info, but if not, fair enough. Understand that. Anyway, good on you guys. Sounds like a lotta fun.

Singapore. It would be nice if we can make it, but as far as I can see currently we have one other active member "limitedbaking" from my country. Of course, Evon is a close neighbour and always welcome to hop, skip and jump across the straits with her beautiful bakes :).

Just read the news report you posted. Great! You all are celebrites :).

Khalid, You got it. I was somewhat taken aback as I'm used to being the only bread fanatic in the room. I'm so used to watching people's eyes glaze over when I go on and on about my favorite topic. -Varda

Grate the rind of one lemon, set aside. Beat the egg yolk to break them up, add sugar and lemon juice. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the curd thickens (take a spoon, dip it in the curd. Run you finger through the curd on the back of the spoon. If the line remains, the curd is thick enough). Remove the curd from the heat and add the butter and the lemon zest. Stir until butter is melted. Let cool to roomtemperature, then refigerate.

It says it lasts for two weeks but I think it lasts longer. It makes four jars of the type I brought to the meeting.

Kirsten, I was just talking with a woman who saw your Volkornbrot in the Minuteman article and asked if you would share the recipe. Of course I'm sure others would like it as well. It was great to meet you and I hope we will be able to have another meeting before too long. -Varda

Yes, of course I will share the recipe! Maybe I can do it tomorrow. We are going on a week's trip over April vacation, so things are a little crazy. If I don't get to it before we leave you will have it in 10 day's time.

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